Chasing her toy on the green hillsides of Carroll County, Ky. must seem like paradise to Bbazy — a 10-year-old Belgian Malinois and war veteran — compared with the danger she encountered in Afghanistan.

Air Force Airman first class Elijah R. Lauderbaugh recently returned home after a year at Kunsan Air Base in South Korea, where he specialized in munitions systems and took college classes to apply towards a business degree.